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psychodynamics
(redirected from Psychodynamic theory)

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psychodynamics [¦sī·kō·dī′nam·iks]
(psychology)
The study of human behavior from the point of view of motivation and drives, depending largely on the functional significance of emotion, and based on the assumption that an individual's total personality and reactions at any given time are the product of the interaction between his genetic constitution and his environment.


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Importantly, he also recognizes that interpretive approaches may still retain this instrumental focus, offering the example of the nonreductive approach to persons of contemporary psychodynamic theory as one example.
Blending political analysis and psychodynamic theory, Attack on Government redefines the question of "Why does government fail" as "Why do we want and need our government to fail?
Nor did psychodynamic theory, with its emphasis on unconscious drives.
 
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